Boyhood Empire
36. Beach Dreams: The Last Summer
My family’s annual June sojourns at the Wilmington Avenue cottage in the resort by the sea covered four years, from a week in 1957, [...]
37. Liners: Île de France, 1957
My first and most tyrannically absolute memory of childhood, one free from the grainy coaxing of black and white photo albums, is my apprenticeship [...]
38. Liners: Cristoforo Colombo, 1963
A full three years between my first and second transatlantic crossings. The second, like the first, was westbound, from Gibraltar to New York aboard [...]
39. Liners: MS Cesare Augustus, 1970
Slowly hauled toward adolescence, and later adulthood, as if by a weary stork eager to deposit me at the foot of some tall landfall [...]
Coda: Etched in Sand
In the summer of 1969, I do not remember precisely when, I returned to the resort by the sea with my father. I was [...]
Author
Christopher P. Winner is a veteran American journalist and essayist who was born in Paris in 1953 and has lived in Europe for more than 30 years.